Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest college building still standing is Harvard's Massachusetts Hall of 1720. Seen on both old prints, it is midway in style between Old Harvard with its medieval emphasis on pointed dormer windows and its strikingly irregular roof line, and the more measured formality of New Harvard Massachusetts and reminiscent of Boston's Old State House of the Early Georgian period...
...story: Socialite Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, onetime German Chancellor and now Minister to Austria, recently prepared a list of Austrian Nazis "who would be acceptable to Realmleader Hitler as the Cabinet of Austria." Such an act was irregular in the extreme, since Nazis and their movement are outlawed in Austria. But von Papen had his orders from Berlin and Adolf Hitler is Austrian-born. Armed with this list, top-hatted, tail-coated Diplomat von Papen arrived at Austria's famed Ballhaus ("White House"), heavy with historic memories of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna. Very small...
Vernon King, 13, of Salt Lake City recently titillated classicists by grouping some irregular Latin verbs with "u" stems into a ''fifth conjugation," making a plausible case for his "discovery." More versatile than most prodigies, he has also worked out an original demonstration of the fourth dimension (time). Bedridden since he fractured a knee playing hide-&-seek, he gets most fun out of chemical experiments...
...success of creamy little Shirley Temple, it was inevitable that before long another child actress would pop up in Hollywood. Yet 9-year-old Jane Withers, Fox's latest bid for prepuberty adulation, is all that Hollywood might suppose a popular child actress should not be. Her round irregular face is almost entirely surrounded by a mop of straight black hair. Her snub nose screws up like a Boston bull pup's. Her plumpish figure looks far better in East Side gingham than in dainty drawing-room voile. When so directed, she can be as unladylike in speech...
Harry Jee, Canton-born 27 years ago, is editor of the Chinese Journal, one of two Chinese dailies in New York City. The Chinese Nationalist Daily is conservative, regular; the Journal, militantly liberal, highly irregular. Its eight pages of Chinese text are written in longhand by Editor Jee and two assistants. Eight compositors, lightning fast at their trade, set the Chinese characters by hand at the rate of half a column per hour. The Journal is read by 6,500 Chinese...